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Fedora 9 "Sulphur" Alpha Released

by Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail last modified Feb 06, 2008 03:34 PM

The alpha development release of Fedora 9 has been released

Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Alpha is out for developers, early adopters, and those who can't stand to wait.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2008-February/msg00072.html

http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease

  • Support for resizing ext2,ext3 and NTFS partitions during installation
  • Support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems
  • Faster and more efficient yum dependency resolver
  • PackageKit
  • FreeIPA, an integrated solution combining Linux, Fedora Directory Server, FreeRADIUS, MIT Kerberos, NTP, DNS and providing web and commandline provisioning and administration tools.
  • GNOME 2.21 Development Release
  • KDE 4.0
  • Firefox 3 'Minefield' (nightly builds)
  • Kernel 2.6.24
  • ... And Many More~ ...

Rel notes: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Alpha/ReleaseNotes

Test status are being tracked here : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/9/AlphaTreeTesting

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